How to support injured photojournalist Joao Silva

New York Times photojournalist
Joao Silva lost both his legs when he
stepped on an anti-personnel mine in Afghanistan on October 23. "Those of
you who know João will not be surprised to learn that throughout this ordeal he
continued to shoot pictures," wrote New
York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller in
a memo to staff.

One of two surviving members of the Bang-Bang Club, a group of photographers who covered the unrest in South Africa in the 1990s, Silva, 44, has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, southern Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. He is a father to two young children, Isabel and Gabriel.

The photographer is now in the ICU at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center, and could use some assistance: His friends have set up a website to raise money for his
recovery. You can either buy one of his prints or outright donate. Please click here to help.

Lauren Wolfe is the director of Women Under Siege, a project on sexualized violence and conflict at the Women's Media Center. While CPJ's senior editor, she wrote the CPJ report, "The Silencing Crime: Sexual Violence and Journalists." Previously, she was a researcher on two New York Times books on the 9/11 attacks.